At least 79 people are currently being detained incommunicado following the government crackdown on popular protests
Protests articles on Democracy Chronicles
Political protests are a human right, political right and civil liberty to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interest. Today, pro-democracy protests and freedom of speech remain under threat. Also take a look at our articles on the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Turkey, and the Tea Party.
Nationwide Russian Protest Against Putin as Top Critic Arrested
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic has been arrested on the day of nationwide protests against the leader’s bid to stay in office for at least another six years. Anti-corruption blogger Alexey Navalny mobilized two waves of protests in dozens of cities last year, incensed at the reported wealth of government officials under Putin’s […]
At the Yemen Can’t Wait Rally at Senator Chuck Schumer’s office
Protests outside Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer’s office in New York City today were calling for an end to American support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen under the rally slogan “Yemen Can’t Wait!”
Honduran women protest against faulty presidential election
Hundreds of women protested Thursday in Honduras against Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is preparing to begin his second presidential term Saturday after winning November’s disputed vote. In commemorating the Day of the Honduran Woman, some 1,000 women protestors marched in Tegucigalpa, demanding leftist candidate Salvador Nasralla be declared the winner. Some carried crosses emblazoned with […]
Then and Now: Strategies for women activists and their foremothers
Modern-day counterparts to the strategies newly enfranchised female voters used in the 1920s to strengthen democracy
Chinese #MeToo movement is testing the censors’ limits
Censors deleted hundreds of social media posts with the tag “Me too in China” and closed related topic forums
The contempt for the radicals
Too many are convinced that the cause of increasing populism, the mistrust of the establishment, and a new political landscape across the western world is only an unusual virus; namely the radical, malignant and infectious mob.
From mediator to mobiliser: The Catholic Church in DR Congo
After having played a mediating role in DR Congo’s political crisis, the Catholic Church is now defying Kinshasa
Kenyan Women Protest in Push For Constitutional Gender Rule
Hundreds of women marched through Nairobi on Monday to protest the president’s failure to name women to at least one-third of government positions, as Kenya’s constitution requires. Two weeks ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta unveiled a Cabinet shakeup, naming nine people for high-ranking government positions. Not one of the nominees was a woman. The president also […]
Together We RISE – Photos from the NYC Women’s March 2018
An estimated half-million people turned out to the protest to support women’s rights, reproductive rights, Black Lives Matter, Children’s Rights, to impeach and arrest Donald Trump and much more.